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“Fascism is like Communism, and dishonest into the bargain. The dictators suppress all art, literature, theatre, music, news, that does not meet their requirements; yet the world only moves by the light of genius.”
Aleister Crowley: Secret Agent 666: British Intelligence and the Occult
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#doing #TrueWill #drunk #delight #life #thelema #AleisterCrowley
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“Freedom is a two-edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other responsibility, on which both edges are exceedingly sharp; and which is not easily handled by casual, cowardly or treacherous hands.” - Jack Whiteside Parsons
I’ve been thinking about prominent occultists from around the 20th century a lot lately. I may draw Pamela Colman Smith next.
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Clovvder - 93
Choronzon Club - The Tunnels of Set
The Thelemic Creed in the Gnostic Mass:
I believe in one secret and ineffableLORD; and in one Star in the company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name AIWASS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breaths.
And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.
And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in His name BAPHOMET.
And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is ΘΕΛΗΜΑ.
And I believe in the communion of Saints.
And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass.
And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom whereby we accomplish the Miracle of Incarnation.
And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come.
ΑΥΜΓΝ, ΑΥΜΓΝ, ΑΥΜΓΝ.
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The title of ninth Sephira, or emanation of the Tree Of Life, is YSVD (Yezod). It is the Sephira of the Lunar magick of Aub, or Ob, the Serpent (whence “obeah”).
The Serpent is a Symbol common to the Yezidi, Voodooists, Tantrics, and Thelemites.
Yezod or Yesod as the secret center of the Yezidi is an apt description of the Sephira wich corresponds to the sexual center in the human body. Yesod means “Foundation”, and the Hadit of the Thelemites, is the Foundation of the World, as Yesod is the foundation of the Tree Of Life.
The accursed God of the South is, then no other than the lord of the reproductive forces typified by the southernmost Sephira-Yesod.
Yesod is attributed to the Moon. not to the Sun. The curious symbolism is explained by the connection of the Serpent or Dragon with the lunar current typified by Babalon- “for he is ever a sun, and she a moon”. The symbolism may be fathomed at the Hindu level of mythology where Shiva (the Indian Seth) is called “the god with the crescent” (i.e the moon) in the Bhagavad Gita. Also, Thoth the Moon-god, was originally the God of Sirius, identical with the Star-God-Seth, before the luni-solar mode of reckoning time supplanted the stellar reckoning.
This is the reason why the inverted pentagram, or pointed towards the south is usually abhorred as a seal of the devil. Is the seal of Satan because it invokes the snake sex, snake Obeah. The osirisian, and Christians, fled from this aspect of existence, and the pentagram of Set, the south, was considered the symbol of impurity and of abomination. It is still the star of Satan for those who consider the use the current of sexual magic as “evil” that is diabolic. Originally there was no moral pollution; it comes from the hands of the followers of the cult of the old Aeon, those represented in myth by God Dying: Adonis, Osiris, Christ, etc
Kenneth Grant
“The Magical revival”
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Babalon Is Represented As The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, And The Mother Of Abominations. Her Godform Is That Of A Sacred Whore, And Her Primary Symbol Is The Chalice Or Graal. Her Consort Is Chaos, The “Father Of Life” And The Male Form Of The Creative Principle. Babalon Is Often Described As Being Girt With A Sword And Riding The Beast, With Whom Aleister Crowley Personally Identified. As Aleister Crowley Wrote, “she Rides Astride The Beast; In Her Left Hand She Holds The Reins, Representing The Passion Which Unites Them. In Her Right She Holds Aloft The Cup, The Holy Grail Aflame With Love And Death. In This Cup Are Mingled The Elements Of The Sacrament Of The Aeon” (Book Of Thoth). In A More General Sense, Babalon Represents The Liberated Woman And The Full Expression Of The Sexual Impulse.
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There is the general metaphysical antithesis that Magick is the Art of the Will-to-Live, Mysticism of the Will-to-Die; but — “Truth comes bubbling to my brim; Life and Death are one to Him!”.
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THE ANDROGYNE
(The Man made God)
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THE ANDROGYNE
(The Man made God)
The alchemical formule is complete.
The man has elevate himself up until the stars but HE remained attached to the material world.
HE connected the opposites in perfect equilibrium, completing them.
Now HE is not a human and neither an Angel…HE is a God!!!
There aren not more secrets for HIM because HE is Aware….
There are not more pain and death for HIM because He destroyed the mirror of illusion…
There are not more sleeps for HIM because the Samādhi is his repose…
He complete perfectly the all in all…Now HE is ready for return to his Fathers/Brothers the Dhyāni-Chohan until to kiss THE ONLY MOTHER and return in her womb….because SHE is the Only Truth!!!
The picture is Finaly completed ….”As Above So Below”……
Symboogy:
Hè = ( ה ) “Window”; Numeric Value = 5. The window for the astral universe, or the desire for the world of stars dreamed from the angels.
Phè = ( פ ) “Mouth”; Numeric Value = 80. The big mouth that spits fire, or Shiva the destroyer of the illusions, the creative aggression.
Thet = ( ט ) “Snake”; Numeric Value = 9. The union of the will with flesh that is manifested by the”lion-snake”, the force of the Kundalini snake that goes up to the source of the biggest pleasure.
Shin = ( ש ) “tooth” Numeric Value = 300. Represent the perfect union between Body, Spirit and Soul.
Inguz = ( the rune on his stomach) “Fire”. The devine Hero that finish what he initiated, as a god of fertility corresponds an aspect of the mother Earth and so the law of the life about the conjunction of the opposites.
Linga-Yoni = (sexual organ). Yoni is a Sanskrit word with different meanings, most basically “vagina” or “womb”, its counterpart is the Lingam., it is also the divine passage, or sacred temple.
In Hindu philosophy, according to Tantra, yoni is the origin of life. The yoni is also considered to be an abstract representation of Shakti and Devi, the creative force that moves through the entire universe.
The yoni is the creative power of nature and represents the goddess Shakti. The linga stone represents Shiva, and is usually placed in the yoni. The lingam is the transcendental source of all that exists. The linga united with the yoni represents the nonduality of immanentreality and transcendental potentiality.
The Snake and The Orphic Egg = An egg with a snake wound around it from bottom to top, is the ancient and foremost symbol of the Orphic Mysteries which were named after Orpheus. In the esoteric tradition the Orphic Egg represents the soul of the philosopher, the serpent symbolizing the Mysteries. The egg signifies the Cosmos as encircled by the fiery Creative Spirit, a reflection of the mysteries of existence as seen in nature.
The egg is a symbol for the earth, around which the snake (a feminine symbol, as is the moon) winds itself, the snake is also means the Kundalini Power in Hinduism religion, she is a female power that sleeps at the bottom of backbone, when she is ready to wake up the Kundaini goes up the back bone opening all the chakras until the Crown.
Trident = It is the trident of Shiva, represent the power of destruction, in this case the destruction is not saw like a negative thing but rather like the power that destroy the old for the build of the new one, or also the destruction of the microcosmic illusions.
HE breaks the egg with the trident, destroying the material world (world of illusion), for see over the matter.
Fire Of Wisdom = The fire in the other hand means that HE finally re-found the hidden light, the only bright point in the darkness, so to restore the contact with the Super Ego or also meant Atma.
The Hexagram in the flame is one of the most symbolic signs in general it identified as the symbol of the macrocosm, in alchemy the conjunction of the opposites, Fire and water symbolized by the two triangles.
7 Horns 7 Eyes = They represent the seven Gates of wisdom, the 7 is one of the more mystical numbers, everything work in nature on numeric base 7: seven musical notes, seven chakras, seven day of the week and so on…
In particular the 7 represents the seven planetary spirits that hold the cosmos, also named Dhyāni-Chohan in “Esoteric Hinduism” or Elohim in “esoteric Cabala”, they control the function of the human body by the 7 chakras and they correspond to the kings of the firsts 7 sephirot of the Tree Of Life, after THEIR there are only the absolute trinity.
Ankh or Egyptian Cross = Symbol of eternal life.
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Babalon Is Represented As The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, And The Mother Of Abominations. Her Godform Is That Of A Sacred Whore, And Her Primary Symbol Is The Chalice Or Graal. Her Consort Is Chaos, The “Father Of Life” And The Male Form Of The Creative Principle. Babalon Is Often Described As Being Girt With A Sword And Riding The Beast, With Whom Aleister Crowley Personally Identified. As Aleister Crowley Wrote, “she Rides Astride The Beast; In Her Left Hand She Holds The Reins, Representing The Passion Which Unites Them. In Her Right She Holds Aloft The Cup, The Holy Grail Aflame With Love And Death. In This Cup Are Mingled The Elements Of The Sacrament Of The Aeon” (Book Of Thoth). In A More General Sense, Babalon Represents The Liberated Woman And The Full Expression Of The Sexual Impulse.
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1 Had! The Manifestation of Nuit.
2 The unveiling of company of heven.
3 Every man and every woman is a a star.
6 Be thou Hadit, my secret center, my heart and my tongue!
7 Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
12 Come forth, o children, under the stars, and take your fill of love!
13 I’m above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours, my joy is to see your joy.
14 Above the gemmed azure is the naked slendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy of kiss the secret ardours of Hadit.
The wingèd globe, the starry blue, Are mine , O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
21 With the God and the Adorer I am nothing: they don’t see me.
They are as upon the earth;
I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit.
1 Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
2 Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed.
I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride.
I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
3 In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.
6 I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of evey star.
I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
1 Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra-hoor-khuit.
17 Fear not all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything.
Money fear not, nor laughter of folk folly,
nor any other power in heavenor upon the earth or under the eart.
Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light;
and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
26 These slay, naming your enemies; and they shall fall before you.
49 I am in a secret fourfold word,
the blashemy against all gods of men.
“Liber AL Vel Legis” (chosen sections)
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Verse 28. The wise one dispels negligence by means of mindfulness; he ascends the pinnacle of wisdom and being free from sorrow looks at the sorrowing beings. Just as one on the mountain top looks at those on the plain below, so also, the wise one (the arahat) looks at the foolish and the ignorant (worldliness)
Verse 61. If a person seeking a companion cannot find one who is better than or equal to him, let him resolutely go on alone; there can be no companionship with a fool.
Verse 62. “I have sons, I have wealth”; with this (feeling of attachment) the fool is afflicted. Indeed, he himself is not his own, how can sons and wealth be his?
Verse 152. This man of little learning grows old like an ox; only his flesh grows but not his wisdom.
Verse 184. Forbearance which is long-suffering is the highest austerity. The Buddhas declare nirvana to be the supreme state. Verily he is not an anchorite who harms another; nor is he an ascetic who causes grief to another.
Verse 372. There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
Dhammapada
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HYMN TO PAN
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain — come over the sea,
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man! my man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp —
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
IO ΠAN
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HAPPY WINTER SOSTICE 93’S
“Hear me, Lord of the Stars,
For thee have I worshipped ever
With stains and sorrows and scars,
With joyful, joyful Endeavour.
Hear me, 0 lilywhite goat
Crisp as a thicket of thorns,
With a collar of gold for thy throat,
A scarlet bow for thy horns.”
The sign of Capricornus is rough, harsh, dark, even blind; the impulse to create
takes no account of reason, custom, or foresight. It is divinely unscrupulous,
sublimely careless of result. “thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” AL. I, 42-4
The formula of this card is then the complete appreciation of all existing
things. He rejoices in the rugged and the barren no less than in the smooth and
the fertile. All things equally exalt him. He represents the finding of ecstasy in every phenomenon, however naturally repugnant; he transcends all limitations;
he is Pan; he is All.
BOOK OF THOTH
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METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF SEXUAL MAGIC:
There exists a talisman of universal application.
In the Elemental Kingdom it is represented represented by pyramis, fire; in geometric terms by the pyramid or triangle and in biological terms by the phallus. As the sun radiates life and light throughout the solar system, so the phallus radiates life and light upon earth, and, similarly, subserves a power greater than itself. For as the sun is a reflection of Sirius, so is the phallus the vehicle of the Will of the Magus.
In the non-initiate the phallic power operates independently of and often at variance with, its possessor; it functions capriciously, regardless of the individual. The phallic power possesses the individual, not vice versa. In the case of the initiate, however, the position is reversed.
The O.T.O. possesses the secret knowledge of rectification and the means of release from the thraldom of unregenerate instinct. It instructs the operator in the proper use of the Elemental Fire, the right building of the Pyramid, the successful wielding of the Magick Wand.
The control of the Elemental Fire involves the inhibition of the usual physical results of sexual congress. The libido is not “earthed”, but directed by the Will to incarnate in a form specially prepared for its reception.
Liber Agape, the enchiridion of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O., shows how sexual magick is based on the assumption that no cause can be baulked of an effect. If the natural effect is annulled, the discharge of energy is not lost, it forms a subtle or astral image of the idea dominant in the mind at the climax of coitus. Ordinarily this idea is one of lust, and because of this a tendency or habit is set up in the mind, which consequently becomes increasingly difficult to control. This tendency must therefore be destroyed.
The mental exaltation generated by a magically controlled orgasm forms a lucent lenselike window past which stream the vivid astral imagery of the subconscious mind.
Specific images are evoked and “fixed”; they become instantly and vitally alive.
As their luminous presence is obsessive, magical safeguards are essential to offset actual obsession. These images are dynamic links with the deeper centres of consciousness and act as keys to the experience or revelations which form the object of the Operation. To incarnate such experiences is the object of sexual magick. It is necessary, therefore, to formulate the will with great care and with strict economy of means. There must be nothing in the mind at the moment of orgasm except the image of the “child” which it is
intended to bring to birth. Objurgations against masturbation, onanism, coitus interruptus, karezza and other apparently sterile methods of using sexual energy, follow logically upon awareness (however consciously unacknowledged this awareness may be) of the sacramental nature of the generative act. Erroneous conclusions drawn from incomplete apprehension of the factors involved led in the past to the “fire and brimstone” admonitions directed against “abuses”, which at one time were thought to lead to degeneration of the nervous system, blindness, paralysis and insanity. In actual fact, none of the energy is lost, though it fails to find a field of operation in the matrix which nature has provided for it. It breeds, instead of physical offspring, phantoms composed of tenuous matter. Through the deliberate and persistent practice of such “abuses”, qliphotic entities are engendered;
they prey upon the mind and feed upon the nervous fluid. As Crowley notes:
“The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam the demon Lilith was conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves, and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man”.1
Many long and tedious dissertations on the possibility of a “witch” giving birth to offspring after union with the devil in the form of an incubus should be understood in the sense that children are born of such unions, though not physical children. Any discharge of energy, of any kind, has an effect on all planes. If results on one plane are baulked-as would happen in the case of the incubus-then they appear on another. According to ancient authorities on Witchcraft, incubi and succubi were personifications of the devil himself. The devil is synonymous with the creative spirit in man. Crowley goes so far as
to declare that “the satyr is the True Nature of every man and every woman”.
The incubus or succubus is the exteriorization, or extrusion, of the satyr in each individual. It represents the subliminal Will; in effect, the Dwarf Self or Holy Guardian Angel. It is this principle in man that is immortal, and it is inextricably bound up with the sexuality, which, in turn, is the key to its nature and the means of its incarnation. (…)
Dr. Kellner, who reformed the O.T.O. In modern times was initiated in the use of the sexual current by an Arab named Soliman Ben Aifa, and two indianTantrics Bhima Sen Pratap and Shri Mahatma Agamia Paramahansa.
It is not certain, but it is very likely that they were initiates of the Vama Marg, or left-hand path. The cleary tantric element in some of the instructions of the ‘OTO Involving the use of sex becomes so clear.
The term Vama Marg, despite the details of Sir John Wodroffe, is still under a cloud of errete interpretations generated by emotional reactions to ideas alien to Western thought.
I do not expect to succeed where such authorities have failed, but I reaffirm once again that the expression “left-hand path” is a technical term indicating the magical use of sexual energy, sometimes with the help of female helpers (Shakti), as in the case of tantric, and female companions (Manjaris) as in the case of Sahajiya.
The tantric especially those of the sect Kaula, follow practices similar to those of certain African cults or neo-African such as voodoo and the Obeah. But the assistance of women is not always necessary and not always used.
In the system of spiritual culture that includes the sexual use of women and establishing a high ideal of reverence for the feminine principle as the Shakti, or power-aspect of the universe, not the product of psychopaths, unless we postulate the existence of an unbroken line of culprits that extends for countless centuries.
Neither the original African concept of sex is in no way inferior to the highly developed and complex formulas used by alchemists or Rosicrucians in their Great Work of transformation of the vulgar metal of the worldly passion into the pure gold of spiritual light.
Is the bigotry of the Orthodox religionist and the blind stagger in the dark of psychologists materialists which sees these systems as a morbid expression of the primordial creative impulse.
Crowley’s life was a struggle against a mindset that led to suppress in the name of a servile creed - whether it was religious, liberal arts or sciences - the secret and sacred source of life in favor of a reflection deformed psychological impotence typical of those who prescribe the suppression and restriction of a way of life. The only pity that AL recognizes is the restriction, cause of all the “sins”.
When Crowley took over the leadership of 'O.T.O. , It did so with the intent to promote individual liberty under the law of Thelema. He incorporated the fundamental principles of this law in Liber Oz, that published in 1942. In the space of a few hundred words, he declared what he described as the political program of the 'OTO In the outside world.
The old Aeon, like any other event was inevitable and it aroused exactly that current that his ministers were trying to suppress, if not destroy.
The sexual energy inhibited from 2000 years, as a result, it now consumes a tremendous orgasm, the impetus which in physical terms will projects the human consciousness with ultraphysical signs.ì. The projection is the formula of Ra-Hoor-Kuith; Horus is its active phase.
There will explosion, disintegration and reintegration of elements again downloaded in vehicles whose substance will have a subtle nature and relatively immaterial, approssimatosi to the scientific concept of entities seen in AL.
During dictation of AL, Crowley asked for a “sign” and Nuit exclaimed: “The sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body” (…).
Since an Aeon follows another, it will appears changes in the sexual nature of the organisms that will develop the thelemic concept. The pro-parent (Female) dominated the Aeon of Isis, parthenogenesis was the formula of that era. In 'Aeon of Osiris, the progenitor (Male) prevailed. The Aeon of Horus, is the Aeon of the “ Son Crowned and Conqueror ”- it will see the merging of the two sexes in one. The bisexual Baphomet of the Templars symbolizes this concept.
In the language of Thelemic magick, Heru-Ra-Ha - solar consciousness - phallic - it manifests itself as active current as represented by Horus Ra-Hoor-Kuith (IX) and as the passive current represented by Set, or Shaitan, or Hoor Paar-Kraat (XI). These are dual ways of the Baphomet operation.
adapted from:
The Magical Revival (1972), Kennet Grant
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God (1973), Kennet Grant
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American sexologist Alfred Kinsey (left) and film-maker Kenneth Anger examining some of Aleister Crowley’s murals at his Abbey at Cofalu, Sicily.
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